(yo CULPEPER's ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
Twenty drops of the elixir of vitriol, in a cup of the infufion of the bark, may be 
taken twice or thrice-aday. The chalybeate waters generally prove beneficial -in 
this diforder. Hyfteric women are often afflicted with cramps in various parts of. 
the body, which are moft apt to feize them in bed, or when afleep. The moft effi. 
cacious medicines in this cafe are opium, bliftering-plaifters, and warm bathing or 
fomentations. When the cramp or {pafm is very violent, opium is the remedy moft. 
to be depended on. Cramps are often prevented or cured by compreffion, Thus 
cramps in the legs are prevented, and fometimes removed, by tight bandages; and, | 
_ when convulfions arife from.a flatulent diftenfion of the inteftines, or from {pafms 
beginning in them, they may be often leffened or cured by making a pretty ftrong. 
compreffion upon the abdomen by means of a broad belt. A roll of brimftone held 
intthe hand is frequently ufed as a remedy for cramps.: though this feems to owe. 
its ‘effect chiefly to imagination, yet, as it fometimes fucceeds, it merits a trial. 
When fpafms or convulfive motions arife from fharp humours in the ftomach and 
inteftines, no lafting relief can be procured tiil thefe are either correéted or expelled. 
_ The Peruvian bark has fometimes cured periodic convulfions after other medicines 
have failed:: 
OF HY POCHONDRIAC COMPLAINTS, 
_ THESE generally attack the indolent, the luxurious, the unfortunate, and the. 
udiows and are daily increafed by luxury and fedentary employments. Men of: 
a.melancholy temperament, whofe minds are capable of great attention, and whofe 
~ paffions are not-eafily moved, are, in the advanced periods of life, moft liable to this 
diteafe. It is ufually brought on by long and ferious attention to abftrufe fubjeéts, 
grief, the fuppreffion of cuftomary evacuations, excefs of venery, the repulfion of 
cutaneous eruptions, long-continued Te obftructions in fome of the vif 
cera, as the liver, fpleen, &c. .. ; 
_ CURE..---Cheerfulnefs and ferenity of mind are by-all means to be cineca? 
Exercife of every kind is.ufeful. The cold bath is likewife beneficial ; and, where. 
it does not agree with the patient, frictions with the fiefh-brufh or a coarfe cloth’ 
may be tried, Ifthe patient has it in his power, he ought to travel either by fea or 
Tani: Avoyage or along journey, efpecially towards a warmer climate, will be of 
ervice than any medicine. The generalintentions of ‘cure, in this difeafe, are 
to ftrengthen thealimientary canal, and to promote the fecretions, Thefe intentions 
willbe ——— d by the different preparations of iron and the Peruvian bark, 
rope revacuations, may be taken.in the Bie ahd as directed in the 
pub cifeate. 
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